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Spam Rage Message

From 2004, a phone message left by a WHYY reporter to laptoplobbyist.com. She was frustrated with their spam. Her apology wasn’t enuf to get her job back after getting fired for (0:16 mp3):

The World Is

The Third Coast Festival conf is having a live broadcast party at :Vocalo, ChiPubradio’s new station. You can contribute pieces to this on-air extravaganza (how-to: start a user acct, then upload audio w/ tag “Third Coast Festival”).

The broadcast is Fri nite; pieces need to upload by Thurs noon. One of the pieces (“SisterLove”) is where I heard this band named Unforscene putting beats to one of my fave beat poems, Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “The World is a Beautiful Place” (Pictures of the Gone World © 1955). From the compilation Dubplates From The Lamp Vol 3, Unforscene with “The World Is” (5:02 mp3):

Drop Dead

Just in time for Dias de los Meurtos, the 365 Days project has posted mp3s of Drop Dead: An Exercise in Horror, an LP by ol’ time radio innovator Arch Oboler (Lights Out). Track 1 is an “Introduction To Horror” (2:34 mp3):

shortwaveology

If you like the sound of shortwave radio, check this piece by David Goren, from the Listening Lounge section of his shortwaveology site: “Mercy, So Much Noise.”

David is co-producer of Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio with Wynton Marsalis. The latest Big Shed made some room for shortwaveology.

Identical Stangers- Radio Diaries

The latest Radio Diaries is featured on today’s NPR: Story of the Day podcast. It’s a multi-p.o.v. sound-portrait of twins separated at birth, “Identical Strangers” (13:10 mp3):

BG Bikes- Nature Stories

The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Stories podcast features a bike-mic collage, produced by Emily Botein, of my two-wheeled self-propelled roadtrips. From Stories from the Heart of the Land, “Biking the Back Roads” (10:05 mp3):

Mt Kailash nature-cast

The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Stories podcast has Scott Carrier’s piece, from Stories from the Heart of the Land, on circling the sacred Tibetan “Mount Kailash” (20:26 mp3):

Operation Homecoming 6 cast

This week’s HV cast is from the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. We end our series with editor Andrew Carroll and project creator Dana Gioia (Chairman of the NEA) discussing the book and its contributors; and we hear troops reading their works. Music: Jess Atkins. A story by Barrett Golding, “Operation Homecoming- NEA” (5:47 mp3):

Outta Iraq- NPR’s Bullock

NPR reporter Tom Bullock had a nice music-laden commentary this Morning Edition about leaving Baghdad for the last time, “Journalist’s Assignment in Iraq Ends” (5:47 mp3):

So Strangely- Radio Lab

From last year’s Radio Labs episode Musical Language, check their segment “Behaves So Strangely” (mp3):

It’s an intervu w/ music-psych prof Diana Deutsch about the “series of striking auditory illusions and curiosities of sound perception” found on her CD Phantom Words and Other Curiosities.

BJ Nilsen- Short Night

Sound artist BJ Nilsen has a new CD (Touch Records) “based on field recordings and electronics, with mostly analogue equipment, using up to 50 year-old tapemachines, filters and generators.” From The Short Night here’s “Black Light” (4:16 mp3):

BJNilsen: site | revus | d/l

Operation Homecoming 5 cast

This week’s HV cast is from the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Part 5 in our series: Sergeant Clint Douglas exchanges some bizarre cordialities between bitter enemies. Music: Jess Atkins. A story by Barrett Golding, “Lunch with Pirates” (5:47 mp3):

Operation Homecoming 4 cast

This week’s HV cast is from the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Part 4 in our series: Sergeant John McCary writes a frustrated email home after attending two multiple funerals in a single day. Music: Jess Atkins. A story by Barrett Golding, “To the Fallen” (3:36 mp3):

Go Home CDs

Even if mashups are so tres 20C, I still like some of ’em. In HV posts past we’ve streamed a few from Go Home Productions. Now, for a limited time, GPH, aka, Mark Vidler, has his whole collection of mashups and remixes as free downloads, 13 CDs worth. At KGLT our current fave has samples from every rock record ever recorded; well, lotsa ’em anyway, Outcast vs. ACDC vs. Queen vs. Crowded House vs. Led Zep vs. Beatles vs. a few more; from GPH’s This Was Pop, “Rock in Black” (3:58 mp3):

Operation Homecoming 3 cast

This week’s HV cast is from the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Part 3 in our series: Sergeant Helen Gerhardt recounts her first few days in Iraq, in an email to family and friends. Music: Jess Atkins. A story by Barrett Golding, “Among These Ruins” (3:36 mp3):

Iron Cross Rocks Junta cast

This week’s HV cast is in support of Burmese demonstraters: The popular Burmese rock band Iron Cross is using music to challenge the nation’s infamously repressive regime. In the great tradition of rock and roll, Iron Cross is taking on Burma’s military government with song. A story by Scott Carrier, “Iron Cross Battles Burmese Repression” (7:39 mp3):

TouchRadio

TouchRadio is the webcast (iTunes subscribe) of Touch Records, the label of field recordists and audio artists, including Chris Watson. Try one— step into this “9-Sided Room,” by Steve Roden (27:00):

Who’s John Cage? cast

This week’s HV cast: John Cage was born 95 years ago, September 5 1912. Here’s a quasi-Cage-ian sound portrait with voxpop featuring folk answering the musical question: “Who’s John Cage?”

A story by Barrett Golding, “Who’s John Cage (Silence)” (2:24 mp3):

Office Yoga cast

This week’s HV cast: A Labor Day Dialectic: A more realistic approach to spiritual awareness: how yoga might help relieve stress at the office, or not. Produced by Rebecca Flowers. A story by Rebecca Flowers, “Office Yoga” (2:16 mp3):

Ann & Kara- Window in Time

Producers Kara Oehler and Ann Heppermann interview and inventively sound-portray Steve Quinn of NYC’s American Museum of Natural History interview w/ producers). From the Stories from the Heart of the Land series, in the episode The Nature of the Imagination, “A Window in Time” (4:12 mp3):